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         Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS to list of file systems.
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+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-20
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
+Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
+David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+    Alain PORTAL
+        Formatting fixes.
+
+Various pages
+    mtk / Alain Portal
+        s/``...''/"..."/
+
+Various pages
+    mtk
+        s/epoch/Epoch/
+
+Various pages
+    mtk
+        Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
+        logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+_syscall.2
+    mtk
+      Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.
+
+chroot.2
+    mtk
+        Various minor formatting changes.
+
+epoll_wait.2
+    mtk
+        Fix types in structs.
+        Formatting fixes.
+
+mount.2
+    mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
+        Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
+        functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.
+
+sched_setaffinity.2
+    mtk
+        Minor rearrangement of text.
+
+select_tut.2
+    mtk
+        Fix (my) typos in argument names.
+        Formatting fixes.
+
+spu_create.2
+    Jeremy Kerr
+        We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
+
+times.2
+    mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
+        http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
+        Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
+        to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
+        to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
+        Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
+        in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
+        return -1 indicating an error.
+    mtk
+        Remove cruft HZ text.
+        Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
+
+getw.3
+    Mats Wichmann
+        CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
+        in POSIX.1-2001.
+
+hash.3
+    mtk / Alain Portal
+        Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.
+
+st.4
+    Alain Portal / mtk
+        Many formatting fixes.
+    mtk
+        Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.
+
+vcs.4
+    Samuel Thibault
+        Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
+        attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
+        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
+    mtk
+        Minor edits.
+
+bootparam.7
+    Alain PORTAL
+        Formatting fixes.
+
+inotify.7
+    mtk
+       Minor heading changes and reformattings.
+
+man-pages.7
+    mtk
+        Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
+        logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
+
+spufs.7
+    Jeremy Kerr
+        Add a little information about the differences to mbox.